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Lundy Island

Bristol Channel, Devon

A granite island fortress for pirates, raiders and one crooked MP.

For centuries Lundy's cliffs made it a perfect hideout. Pirates used it as a base, and raiders from North Africa struck it in the 1600s.

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When
1600s–1700s
Where
51.1800, -4.6700
Group
Pirates

Visiting

Ferries run from Bideford and Ilfracombe in summer.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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